Mass Effect 3

Today I finally finished Mass Effect 3. It was amazing. I love this series so much it is ridiculous.

Normally I'd type up a big huge thing but I don't feel like it.

There is such a SHITSTORM over the endings that I can't help but laugh. Gamers are the fucking WORST. Shit doesn't have to work out how you want it to all the time.

I get the complaints that "not everything is answered completely" but what is wrong with that? I also get that people think they are all "sad" but so what?

They spent 3 games explaining to you how there are choices you have to make each with positives and negatives, and how to save the world is one huge choice. Bad shit is gonna happen.

I can't yet say how exactly I feel about the ending I chose, but I'm certainly not raging like everyone else seems to be. You sit and think about it and it's sad and poignant and ballsy and final without being TOO final. I don't mind that one bit and feel that is how it should be for a game/series of this scale.

Then again, to me, games have always been about the experience in getting to the end rather than the end itself. Changing the cinematic at the end wouldn't change how much I adored this game and the series as a whole.

PS, I banged Liara this time. That's some sweet blue alien ass.

Journey

I've been playing games...a long, long time.

I've played a lot of games with awesome stories and well written characters and phenomenal soundtracks and had goosebumps many a time because of those very things.

I have not, however, been moved to tears.

Until I played Journey.

This is absolutely the most beautiful game I have ever played. Never before have art and atmosphere and music come together so perfectly.

I just wrote a paragraph and some explaining the game and what it's about and what makes it so awesome, but I feel like I don't need to. It should be experienced.

I will say though, the seamless co-op where other players join and journey with you is genius. It's not required, and it's totally random (you can't see names or chat or anything) but adds so much to the experience. the last ten minutes wouldn't have been the same without my (complete stranger) buddy beside me. That's somehow, quite remarkable to say.

Anyway.

Perhaps it is my lack of sleep the last few days, perhaps I was just in the right "mood" or perhaps this game strikes some sort of chord that resonates some important life message without the player even really knowing.

I have no idea.

But I had tears in my eyes at a few points in the game, and by the time the credits rolled I was on the verge of a full on cry...and then I lost it.

Incredible.

PS. I am not gay.

HOOK IT INTO MY VEINS

yes, yes, YES, holy fuck YES.

So much other shit to play, but there's no way in hell I'm not grabbing this on Tuesday and vanishing off the face of the earth for a few weeks.

NO WAY.